Re: where is the us-ascii charset and how do I get mutt to use it?

[jennyw <jennyw@dangerousideas.com>]

It's not Asian characters ... the text inbetween =?US-ASCII?Q? and ?= is 
completely readable.  In fact, it's sent from a firewall (SonicWall).

How does one find out whether charsets are working correctly?  I do have 
files in  /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/. I think that's the right place ...

Also, someone on the mutt list suggested adding this to .muttrc:

charset-hook windows-1250 CP1250
charset-hook windows-1251 CP1251
charset-hook US-ASCII     CP1251
charset-hook ISO-8859-1     CP1251

set charset=windows-1251


Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me, although CP1251.gz is present in 
/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/.  So maybe the problem is with my Debian 
charset setup?

I tried looking for info on charsets, but I couldn't find any good 
sources. Any pointers anyone?

Thanks!

Jen



On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 05:28:23PM -0500, DvB wrote:
> 
> I don't use mutt, so I can't really help you on that count. However, I
> can tell you with relative certainty that you do have the us-ascii
> character set available on your system, since your message is written
> in it. From your headers:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> My theory is that what you're seeing is actually some of the infamous
> Asian-charset spam that's been bombarding Debian mailing lists of late
> (the subjects show up as a bunch of little squares under gnus).
> 
> 
> HTH
> 
> 
> jennyw <jennyw@dangerousideas.com> writes:
> 
> > I noticed that mutt isn't recognizing the us-ascii charset (I get messages 
> > with a subject like: =?US-ASCII?Q?<actual subject which displays just 
> > fine>?=.  I started looking around and saw a reference to RFC 1342 which 
> > describes how non-ascii characters are supposed to be represented.  It 
> > seems that mutt isn't recognizing the us-ascii character set.
> > 
> > Does anyone know where I can find the us-ascii characterset on my system 
> > or how to get it if I don't have it?  Also, any pointers on getting mutt 
> > to work with it would be appreciated!
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Jen
> > 
> > 
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